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Eye-tracking technology can be used to determine what an individual looked at, how long and how often. Understanding what information someone did or did not see can paint a picture of their situational awareness. Eye tracking has been used in other industries, including aviation, but has not been heavily utilized in the drilling industry. A multidisciplinary team consisting of experts in petroleum engineering, systems engineering and psychology from the University of Oklahoma (OU) performed an eye-tracking experiment using a virtual reality drilling simulator to assess the situational awareness of participants. In this video from the 2018 IADC/SPE Drilling Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, on 7 March, Raj Kiran, a PhD candidate in petroleum engineering at OU, discusses this experiment and what the team learned. He also explains what the drilling industry can learn about situational awareness and decision making by using eye-tracking technology...

Across the E&P industry, companies are looking to real-time data and advanced analytics to optimize the drilling process. “Real time data systems … have proven to be a vital tool for the drilling operation,” Dr Dingzhou Cao, Data Scientist at Andarko Petroleum Corp, said...

Wood has been awarded three contracts to perform subsea and flow assurance studies for Woodside in Senegal, West Africa, supporting the proposed SNE field development in the Rufisque, Sangomar and Sangomar deep offshore blocks located offshore Senegal...

As oilfield sensors and digital technologies grow more sophisticated, the industry is increasingly relying on real-time data to optimize the well intervention process. In today’s intervention operations, downhole data can make the difference between success and failure – and we know that operators can’t afford failures in this low-price environment...